On TV

We were only in the audience, but it was really fun to go to the local King5 New Day Northwest and see what a live TV show is really like, behind the scenes.  

There are 7 different segments. The show started off with Dan Marino and Damon Huard, both NFL football legends.  They talked about their glory days for a bit and then introduced a new wine.  During the commercial break they stayed for pictures and autographs.

This group was on the show to promote the Bellevue Jazz Music Festival this weekend.  

Indoor Kite Flyer Connor Duran performs.  He was on America's Got Talent.

This lady was there to promote Victoria BC and even gave away a trip to a lucky member of the audience, too bad we weren't the lucky winner, but she talked for several minutes which gave Linsey a lot of screen time.

The other segments were about diabetes awareness and cosmetic surgery which were not as exciting for the kids, but they were thrilled with some freebies.

After the show we got some pictures with the host Margaret Larson.

The studio itself is quite small.

I was surprised that this is where the audience sat.  There is room for more rows of chairs, but with all of the construction in the area, they don't fill much more than this.  The cameras have a way of making the audience look much larger.

Because the audience wasn't huge, every time the cameras scanned to the audience, which was mostly before and after each segment, we were on TV.

Lucky for us (and I give the credit to Caleb who wore his BYU shirt which gave us special treatment from an LDS employee at K5) we were invited to check out the news room.  

How cool is that?  Pretty great looking news crew.

 This is where they do the weather.

 Looks like a pretty intense interview.  

We went home and watched the show, fast forwarding to the clips where they showed the audience.  Everyone's favorite part is at the end where Austin is clapping his hands high over his head.